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When you are on the Internet, you have no idea who you are really talking to.
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When you are on the Internet, you have no idea who you are really talking to. When you sign up for a chat room or Internet service, you can be almost anyone you ever wanted to be. Cyberspace tends to encourage people to create different personas, different from their own selves. You will find that there is all kinds of ways people could hide their true selves on the Internet. Things like chat rooms, personal adds, and e-mail. In Flamers: Cranks, Fetishes, and Monomaniacs by Gary Chapman, Chapman states that the "anonymity of cyber space has produced some bizarre forms of interaction in which people insult, or "flame", each other, adopt fantasy personas, and generally behave in ways they never would in face-to-face interactions."(Pg358) People are completely different when they are on-line. You can see a complete different person than you are really talking to. When you are in a...
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